Strong’s H70 · Hebrew
אֹבֶן
ʼôben · o' ben
Origin from the same as אֶבֶן (H68);
Meaning a pair of stones (only dual); a potter's wheel or a midwife's stool (consisting alike of two horizontal disks with a support between)
In the King James Version wheel, stool.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Exodus 1:16And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
- Jeremiah 18:3Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.